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From: Kathy Umpleby
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Date: 29 Jan 1999
Time: 23:04:50
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I was involved in a single motor vehicle accident almost nineteen years ago while a sixteen year old junior in high school. My story is one of major medical experiences, as during the first ten years following the initial accident, I required surgery a total of twenty-four times. I have had well over six-hundred stitches in my body and have consequently worn thirteen casts and also, the first year after my release from the hospital, I was confined to a wheelchair.

In spite of all of this trauma and all of my needs, both medical and other wise, I have triumphed because of Who my God Is! All glory and honor are His. I understand that, as an individual, I am special. Everything about me is special, including my disability. It has helped to mold me and shape my personality into the person that I am today. I have survived and overcome the limitations of my disabilities. I think that I am probably a better person today, having lived through the experiences of the last nineteen years. It has given me many, many opportunities to see others, both the able bodied and those with disabling conditions as individuals, as persons or individuals of worth.

We each make a difference in this world, in the "big scheme" of things and we all matter. I love my disability because of who I have become as a result of learning to live with it and to cope with the many challenges. It makes me different than most; it gives others a reason to stare at me sometimes, but that's okay.

We all have inalienable rights, rights that no one can take from us because, as members of the human race, our Creator guarantees us these rights. Whether we are black, yellow or red and whether we speak English, French or Swahili, it does not matter.

As for being physically limited or even mentally limited, again these rights are ours to claim as individuals. Each of us is unique in one way or another, and we each need to relish whatever it is that makes us different from the rest, because for that reason we are special.

Thank you and may God bless you. Kathy Umpleby

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